Godly play materials

Free YouTube video lesson to help teach Godly Play "Listening for God" ideas with an emphasis on listening and gratitude for gifts of creation using the senses

On July 29-31, I attended the Godly Play Core Training at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland. Those of us participating all learned a great deal about helping children with their religious formation. At the same time, the training was a spiritual retreat and an opportunity for everyone involved to grow in faith and personal insight.

Montessori-based Godly Play can deepen religious-education programs in churches of any Christian denomination. Godly Play can also deepen the religious education you provide in your homeschool.

Children of God wooden 3" figures for children.

If yesterday's post, with the video tour of a "real" Godly Play room, or Sheila's recent post about spacious children's worship areas in Texas left you frustrated or discouraged - I hope this will undo that. Many of us have to "make do" with a space that feels less than ideal. But it's ok to do the best we can! The minimum I would want is this: The space that is clearly a prepared space. It has been made special. It is both special ("set apart", even temporarily) and welcoming (for us). So…

Part 2: Resources for getting Started {I've had quite a few questions about starting godly play in the home or at church in the past few m...

If you are new to this space you might appreciate reading Godly Play 1: What is Godly Play and Godly Play 2: Materials before you read t...

Kids Religious Educational Materials From Worship Woodworks Worship Woodworks provides affordable, quality Godly resources and materials for the Children & Worship Program. We see it as our ministry to serve congregations, institutions, organizations, and individuals who care for children and whose purpose is helping them understand the stories of The Bible.

Hands-on Bible activities create a pathway to engage the curious absorbent minds and busy hands of preschool and kindergarten children in fun and meaningful play. Even toddler children will enjoy open…

This Sunday one of the four year olds in my Godly Play group wanted to choose the “Sea of Galilee” for her work. We have been telling the stories from Sonja Stewart’s Following Je…

Sharing Godly Play With The Whole Congregation

I've posted several posts about godly play in the home and have promised some of you that I would explain in more detail what godly play is ...

Let me begin this post by saying that I am not an expert on special needs children. This post is meant only to add to the conversation already going on, and to share my journey with one special little girl. (In this article, I'll refer to her as "Nina", even though that is not her real name.) Last fall the mother of one of my students (I have a part-time job as an English teacher in an elementary school) shared that she was planning to have both of her daughters baptized. Here in Berlin such…

On Sunday I am planning on telling the Godly Play story called "The Good Shepherd and the World Communion". I've been wanting to do this story for a long time, but couldn't figure out how to get affordable materials. The set from the Diakonie Leipzig, the official supplier in Germany, costs 167 Euros, and our church plant doesn't have that much cash lying around for one GP story. And the materials from the American supplier aren't much cheaper. Lately though I've been inspired by on-line…

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Today Megan helps us in creating DIY Godly Play materials. I feel empowered to use Godly Play with my own children after reading her posts and hope you do too!